October 2014
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
			spacer Homemade Cookies Day World Vegetarian Day Henry Ford Introduced the Model T (1908) 1	spacer Name Your Car Day Peanuts Comic Strip First Published In 1950. International Day of Non-Violence,birthday of Mohandas Ghandi (born 1869) 2	spacer First Compact Disc and Playerreleased by Sony in 1982 (Billy Joel '52nd Street') National Denim Day Captain Kangaroo Day(Show first aired on this day in 1955) SOS Established in 1906 3	spacer Eid al-Adha (Muslim Holiday, 5th in North America) Robert Lawson born, 1892 Donald Sobol born, 1924 Sputnik I Launched in 1957 (first space vehicle) 4
spacer World Teacher Day Gene Zion born, 1913 Ray Kroc born, 1902 (Mastermind of McDonald's franchise) 5	spacer World Habitat Day Child Health Day Thomas EdisonShows 1st Motion Picture In 1889. American Library Association Founded (1876) 6	spacer Alice Dalgliesh born, 1893 American Bandstandpremiered in 1957 Rose designated as the U.S. National Flower (1986) 7	spacer Edward Ormondroyd born, 1925 J. Frank Duryeaborn in 1869 The Great Chicago Fire started (1871) 8	spacer National Poetry Day (England) First Two-Way Telephone Conversation in 1876 Leif Ericson Day Moldy Cheese Day The Count's Birthday(Sesame Street Character) 9	spacer James Marshallborn, 1942 Henry Cavendish born in England in 1731. 10	spacer Eleanor Roosevelt born, 1884 First Steam-Powered Ferryboat 'Juliana' began operations in 1811. 11
spacer Farmer's Day Dia de la Raza (Mexico) 12	spacer Columbus Day Thanksgiving Day in Canada Margaret Thatcher born in 1925. First Aerial Photo in USTaken from a balloon in Boston in 1860. Molly Pitcher (Revolutionary War Heroine) born, 1754 13	spacer Lois Lenski born, 1893 Dwight David Eisenhower (34th President) born, 1890 Grover's Birthday(Sesame Street Character) 14	spacer National Grouch Day 15	spacer Dictionary Day Noah Webster born, 1758 World Food Day Edward Ardizzone born, 1900 16	spacer Black Poetry Day San Francisco Earthquake (1989) 17	spacer Sweetest Day Little Orphan Annie birthday.Comic strip character, in 1922. Mason-Dixon Line Established (1767) Puerto RicoBecame U.S. Colony In 1898. 18
spacer Ed Emberleyborn, 1931. Star Spangled Banner First Sung In 1814. Thomas EdisonDemonstrated Electric Light Successfully in 1879. Final battle of the Revolutionary War (1781) 19	spacer Sir James Chadwick (Discoverer of the Neutron) born, 1891 Crockett Johnson born, 1906 20	spacer Guggenheim Museum Opens(1959) 21	spacer National Nut Day 22	spacer iPod First Revealed (2001) Red Ribbon Week (Oct 23-31) Marjorie Flack born, 1897 Edison PeleBrazilian soccer player, born in 1940. 23	spacer Bruno Munari born, 1907 Betty Lou's Birthday(Sesame Street Character) National Bologna Day United Nations Day 24	spacer Pablo PicassoBorn in Spain in 1881. 25
spacer Mother-in-Law's Day Hillary Rodham Clinton born, 1947. International Red Cross Organized In Geneva, Switzerland in 1863. Erie Canal Opened (1825) 26	spacer Theodore Roosevelt born in 1858. 27	spacer Bill Gates born, 1955 Plush Animal Lover's Day Statue of Libertydedicated in 1886. Leonard Kessler born, 1921 28	spacer Stock Market Crash - 1929 (1929) 29	spacer John Adamsborn in 1735. Emily Post (author) born, 1873 30	spacer Halloween Juliette Gordon Low Born in 1860, she started Girl Scouting in the United States in 1912. 31

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Special Goings-On

Child Health Day (First Monday)

Columbus Day (Second Monday)

Thanksgiving Day in Canada (Second Monday)

World Space Week (1st Week)

Fire Prevention Week (2nd Week)

Fire Safety Month Reading Hour

National School Lunch Week (2nd Week)

Teen Read Week (2nd Week)

Sweetest Day (Third Saturday)

Mother-in-Law's Day (Third Sunday)

National Magic Week (4th Week)
Adopt-a-Shelter-Animal Month

Computer Learning Month

Family History Month

National Clock Month

National Dessert Month

National Hispanic Heritage Month

National Pasta Month

National Pizza Festival Month

National Popcorn Popping Month

National Pork Month

National Roller Skating Month

National Seafood Month

National Stamp Collecting Month

Polish American History Month